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    Southern California hotel workers ratify new contracts, ending strikes for some

    by Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times Mar 25, 2024 5 minutes
    Hotel workers protest outside the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California, on July 3, 2023.

    After months spent on and off the picket lines, employees at about three dozen Southern California hotels, including some of Los Angeles' most high-end properties, voted this weekend to approve new contracts that deliver higher wages for thousands of housekeepers, cooks and other workers.

    The deal brings a partial end to a labor dispute that has roiled the local hotel industry since last summer, when workers at about 60 hotels launched a strategy of intermittent strikes to protest wages and work conditions. The contracts approved this weekend cover only 34 of those hotels.

    The overwhelming approval of the four-year agreements — 98% of votes were in favor of them — was announced Monday by Unite Here Local 11, the union representing the workers.

    The contracts, which cover luxury hotels such as the

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